The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 26
The first day’s journey was through the green fields and bright flowers that stretched about the Emerald City on every side.
Who acts: journey, bright flowers, first day · What happens: be, stretch, journey · To what, where: green fields, side
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey, bright flowers, first day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journey | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 day | case |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fields | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fields | cop |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fields | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fields | amod |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flowers | cc |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flowers | amod |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fields | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stretched | nsubj |
| 15 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 City | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 City | det |
| 18 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 City | compound |
| 19 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 stretched | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 side | det |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stretched | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fields | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the first day's journey | the green fields and bright flowers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stretch | past | bright flowers | every side | about the Emerald City | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | journey | the first day | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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